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3 Strategies to Make Healthy Habits Motivating for Your Team

Paul Keefe
5 min readDec 13, 2020

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“The capacity to call into question one’s long-standing ways of thinking and acting, to reconsider an approach to ingrained as to be second nature, belongs at the top of any list of what makes a good parent or teacher.”

— Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards

Supporting the health and well-being of our team can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. We launch new initiatives, bring in wellness experts to share insights, and push as many resources as we can towards our team. We often ask ourselves, “How can we make our team more motivated?” However, this might be the wrong question to ask. Instead, we might be better of asking,

How are we motivating those around us?

By moving away from the perspective of how to make more motivation and towards how we are motivating our staff, we begin to leverage the power of human-centric behaviour change. We start to look at each situation as unique, requiring different levels of planning and focus.

Thinking about the last time you changed, it is probably clear that it was because you were in the right place, mentally and physically, to allow a new…

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Paul Keefe
Paul Keefe

Written by Paul Keefe

A Canadian wellness coach starting deeper conversations around mindset and well-being / paulkeefe.substack.com/welcome

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